Like a real-life microkiller, the arms race over spam isn’t abating, and will not for the foreseeable future.

You may still gets loads of unwanted email about millions of dollars waiting for you the Netherlands, but email spam filters have been effective enough to cut the windpipe of more than 90% of spam messages getting into your inbox.

Still, theoretically eliminating more than 90% of a million messages still leaves you with many tens of thousands of unwanted refuse in your mailbox that you might as well just swallow hard and move on.

These days however, it has exerted enough pain on the spam-meisters that Darwin is forcing them to evolve into varying mutations that are more exasperating to remove, from blog posts’ comment spam to instant messaging, mobile devices and and various malware whose goal is nothing more than to make a buck off peoples’ desire for a hundred and one ways to enjoy Viagra’s ability to give you more of that newly found erectile goodness.

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